Targeted Podcast True Crime Domestic Violence

Police were annoyed in the 1980s because they felt like they
were being asked to be social workers. It took legislators to
change the law enforcement practices (and hopefully, attitudes)
with laws designed to require arrests for those accused of domestic
violence.

Alone, permanently disabled, and unable to work, Tracey Thurman
sued the City of Torrington for violating her rights because they
did not protect her from her husband’s abuse as they consistently
refused to seriously respond to domestic violence.

When Buck Thurman assaulted his wife, Tracey Thurman for the
final time in June 1983, their son CJ wasn’t yet two years
old. After stabbing her and stomping on her, Buck ran into
the apartment she was staying in and grabbed CJ, bringing him out
to see his mother laying limply in the glass, slowly bleeding
out. Buck...

Most of the time when we hear about domestic violence in the
news, it’s because something tragic happened. Usually it’s a
perpetrator who assaulted a target, causing extreme injury or even
death, such as in the case of Tracey Thurman when Buck stabbed her
13 times and stomped on her while a police officer did...